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Special Report: The Local Recording Industry Speaks Out Despite the tough economy, some independent studios have remained
successful. We spoke with some prominent studios on the state and
future of their businesses. |
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Grandaddy “The
day involves a multitude of ups and downs. I'm usually just trying
to capture a day in the life on tape. You gotta have rain to fully
appreciate the sun. This record has nothing on it about war. George
W. Bush is a dork!” |
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From Monument to Masses The Oakland trio discusses its refined approach to meshing music and politics on its new album, The Impossible Leap In One Hundred Simple Steps. “I don’t think we as a band can anticipate how people
are gonna respond to us.” |
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Film School Krayg Burton, Nyles Lannon, Ben Montesano, Justin Labo, and Jason Ruck discuss the evolution of their music and career. “I used to work in a record store and sort through millions
of budget-CDs, and it’s just heart-wrenching to see broken
dream after broken dream—all these bands on major labels who
had thought they had their chance. Here they were six months out
with their record, and it was already in the budget bin. I don’t
want to be that band. I will do anything to not be that band.” |
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Run_Return Tommy Fugelsang, Kevin Dineen, Raj Ojha, and Joel Robinow delve into serene mischief with their upcoming second album. “We try to make stuff as abnormal as we can, taking things
out of context and putting them into new ones.” |
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Plus… Reviews of live shows: Jason Loewenstein, +/-, Versus, The Forty-Fives, The Datsuns, Erase Errata, Deerhoof, Harold Ray Live In Concert, Crack W.A.R., Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Effection, Giant Value Buzz’s Bands To Watch: the kuffs, the effection, clevergirl, mojo apostles CD reviews: big sandy & the fly-rite boys, bottles and skulls, mira calix, chris clark, the cuts, firewater, the flaming sideburns, garage a trois, godflesh, good riddance, kaito, the kuffs, le scrawl, jason loewenstein, mensen, murder city devils, the new pornographers, nofx, paloalto, radiohead, schneider tm, shai hulud, spore attic, stara nova, teen cthulhu, transmission trio, upsurge!, yo la tengo Also… K-leens Cheers & Jeers, “Stage Left”
by dani eurynome, and our new show preview page
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